System and method for generating titles for summarizing conversational documents

ABSTRACT

A method and system of generating titles for documents in a storage platform are provided. The method includes receiving a plurality of documents, each document having associated content features, applying a title generation computer model to each of the plurality of documents to generate a title based on the associated content features, appending the generated title to each of the plurality of documents, wherein the title generation computer model is created by training a neural network using a combination of a first set of unlabeled data from a first domain related to content features of the plurality of documents; and a second set of pre-labeled data from a second domain different from the first domain.

BACKGROUND Field

The present disclosure relates to content summarization, and morespecifically, to systems and methods for automatically summarizingcontent by automatically generating titles based on extracted contentfeatures.

Related Art

There is an ever-increasing amount of textual information available topeople. Often, the textual information may be unorganized and it may bedifficult to determine how to prioritize what to look at. Further, manytypes of textual content, such as conversations and posts on enterprisechat, do not have a title or summary that may be used to easily organizeor prioritize the information. For example, there is a torrent ofinformation available to employees at a business. Rather than spendingtime sifting through the torrent, employee time may be better spent onother tasks.

One method for increasing browsing efficiency is to present theinformation in a compact form, such as using titles and incrementallyrevealing information only as a user indicates interest. However,related art methods of automatically creating such titles or summariesmay suffer from a lack of sufficiently sized sets of text andcorresponding titles to allow training of an automated system.

Further, obtaining good quality labeled data can be difficult andexpensive. In some situations it may preferable that titles should begenerated by the author to express the author's point, rather than by areader. Some related art methods have attempted to train on data fromanother domain with author-generated titles, but because of differencesbetween domains, the performance may be less than adequate. Thesedifferences may include different vocabularies, different grammaticalstyles, and different ways of expressing similar concepts. In thepresent application, addressing these differences in training a modelacross domains may improve performance.

SUMMARY OF THE DISCLOSURE

Aspects of the present application may relate to a method of generatingtitles for documents in a storage platform are provided. The methodincludes receiving a plurality of documents, each document havingassociated content features, applying a title generation computer modelto each of the plurality of documents to generate a title based on theassociated content features, appending the generated title to each ofthe plurality of documents, wherein the title generation computer modelis created by training a neural network using a combination of: a firstset of unlabeled data from a first domain related to content features ofthe plurality of documents; and a second set of pre-labeled data from asecond domain different from the first domain.

Additional aspects of the present application may relate to anon-transitory computer readable medium having stored therein a programfor making a computer execute a method of generating titles fordocuments in a storage platform are provided. The method includesreceiving a plurality of documents, each document having associatedcontent features, applying a title generation computer model to each ofthe plurality of documents to generate a title based on the associatedcontent features, appending the generated title to each of the pluralityof documents, wherein the title generation computer model is created bytraining a neural network using a combination of: a first set ofunlabeled data from a first domain related to content features of theplurality of documents; and a second set of pre-labeled data from asecond domain different from the first domain.

Further aspects of the present application relate to a computing deviceincluding a memory storing a plurality of documents and a processorconfigured to perform a method of generating titles for the plurality ofdocuments. The method including receiving a plurality of documents, eachdocument having associated content features, applying a title generationcomputer model to each of the plurality of documents to generate a titlebased on the associated content features, appending the generated titleto each of the plurality of documents, wherein the title generationcomputer model is created by training a neural network using acombination of a first set of unlabeled data from a first domain relatedto content features of the plurality of documents and a second set ofpre-labeled data from a second domain different from the first domain.

Still further aspects of the present application relate to a computerapparatus configured to perform a method of generating titles for theplurality of documents. The computer apparatus including means forreceiving a plurality of documents, each document having associatedcontent features, means for applying a title generation computer modelto each of the plurality of documents to generate a title based on theassociated content features, means for appending the generated title toeach of the plurality of documents, wherein the title generationcomputer model is created by training a neural network using acombination of a first set of unlabeled data from a first domain relatedto content features of the plurality of documents; and a second set ofpre-labeled data from a second domain different from the first domain.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

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FIG. 1 illustrates a flow chart of a process 100 browsing andvisualizing a collection of documents with automatically generatedtitles.

FIG. 2 illustrates a flow chart of a process 200 for training a titlegeneration computer model used to generate titles of documents stored ina storage platform.

FIG. 3 illustrates a user interface (UI) 300 that may be used to displaydocuments 310 a-310 d in accordance with an example implementation ofthe present application.

FIG. 4 illustrates another user interface (UI) 400 that may be used todisplay documents 310 a-310 d in accordance with an exampleimplementation of the present application.

FIG. 5 illustrates a schematic representation of neural network model500 in accordance with an example implementation of the presentapplication.

FIG. 6 provides a graph of results of one experiment involving exampleimplementations of the present application.

FIG. 7 provides a graph of results of a second experiment involvingexample implementations of the present application.

FIG. 8 illustrates an example computing environment with an examplecomputer device suitable for use in some example implementations of thepresent application.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION

The following detailed description provides further details of thefigures and example implementations of the present application.Reference numerals and descriptions of redundant elements betweenfigures are omitted for clarity. Terms used throughout the descriptionare provided as examples and are not intended to be limiting. Forexample, the use of the term “automatic” may involve fully automatic orsemi-automatic implementations involving user or operator control overcertain aspects of the implementation, depending on the desiredimplementation of one of ordinary skill in the art practicingimplementations of the present application. Further, sequentialterminology, such as “first”, “second”, “third”, etc., may be used inthe description and claims simply for labeling purposes and should notbe limited to referring to described actions or items occurring in thedescribed sequence. Actions or items may be ordered into a differentsequence or may be performed in parallel or dynamically, withoutdeparting from the scope of the present application.

In the present application, the terms “document”, “message”, “text”, or“communication,” may be used interchangeably to describe one or more ofreports, articles, books, presentations, emails, Short Media Service(SMS) message, blog post, social media post, or any other textualrepresentation that may be produced, authored, received, transmitted orstored. The “document”, “message”, “text”, or “communication,” may bedrafted, created, authored or otherwise generated using a computingdevice such as a laptop, desktop, table, smart phone, or any otherdevice that may be apparent to a person of ordinary skill in the art.The “document”, “message”, “text”, or “communication,” may be stored asa data file or other data structure on a computer readable mediumincluding but not limited to a magnetic storage device, an opticalstorage device, a solid state storage device, an organic storage deviceor any other storage device that may be apparent to a person of ordinaryskill in the art. Further, the computer readable medium may include alocal storage device, a cloud-based storage device, a remotely locatedserver, or any other storage device that may be apparent to a person ofordinary skill in the art.

Further, in the present application the terms “title” “caption”,“textual summary”, or “text summary” may all be used interchangeably torepresent a descriptive text-based summary that may be representative ofthe content of one or more of the described “document”, “message”,“text”, or “communication.”

In order to overcome the above discussed issues with the related art,example implementations of the present application may use a combinationof vocabulary expansion to address different vocabularies in source andtarget domains, synthetic titles for unlabeled documents to capture thegrammatical style of the two domains, and domain adaptation to merge theembedded concept representation of the input text in an encoder-decodermodel for summary generation. Additionally, example implementations mayalso provide a user interface that presents summary information thatfirst presents a concise version as titles which can then be expanded bya user.

FIG. 1 illustrates a flow chart of a process 100 browsing andvisualizing a collection of documents with automatically generatedtitles. The process 100 may be performed by a computing device in acomputing environment such as example computing device 805 of theexample computing environment 800 illustrated in FIG. 8 discussed below.Though the elements of process 100 may be illustrated in a particularsequence, example implementations are not limited to the particularsequence illustrated. Example implementations may include actions beingordered into a different sequence as may be apparent to a person ofordinary skill in the art or actions may be performed in parallel ordynamically, without departing from the scope of the presentapplication.

As illustrated in FIG. 1, a plurality of documents are generated,stored, or received by the system at 105. Each of the plurality ofdocument may include one or more content features that may be extractedusing recognition techniques. For example, textual recognition may beused to extract words from the documents. In some exampleimplementations, image recognition techniques may also be used toextract data representative of images from the documents. In someexample implementations, the documents may be articles or papers storedin the research database. In other example implementations, thedocuments may be chat messages, instant messages, chat board postings,or any other type of document that might be apparent to a person ofordinary skill in the art. In some example implementations, a detanglingprocess may be performed to separate threads of messages based oncontent features.

At 110, a title generation computer model is applied to each of thedocuments to generate a title or other short summary. The titlegeneration model may be a neural network configured to use the contentfeatures extracted from each document to generate the title or shortsummary based on previous training. The neural network architecture isdiscussed in greater detail below with respect to FIG. 5. The trainingof the neural network is discussed in greater detail with respect toFIG. 2.

After titles or short summaries have been generated for each of thedocuments, the documents and titles are provided to a User InterfaceController at 120. The User Interface Controller generates a UserInterface (UI) display including one or more of the documents, based onthe titles or short summaries at 125. Example implementations of the UIare discussed in greater detail below with respect to FIGS. 3 and 4below.

After the UI is displayed, a user may interact or provide controlinstructions at 130. For example, the user may provide a search requestor select one or more displayed documents. The User instructions at 130are fed back into the UI controller at 120 and a new display isgenerated at 125. Again, example implementations of the UI are discussedin greater detail below with respect to FIGS. 3 and 4 below. The UI maybe continually updated by the repeating 120-130 as needed.

FIG. 2 illustrates a flow chart of a process 200 for training a titlegeneration computer model used to generate titles of documents stored ina storage platform. The process 200 may be performed by a computingdevice in a computing environment such as example computing device 805of the example computing environment 800 illustrated in FIG. 8 discussedbelow. Though the elements of process 200 may be illustrated in aparticular sequence, example implementations are not limited to theparticular sequence illustrated. Example implementations may includeactions being ordered into a different sequence as may be apparent to aperson of ordinary skill in the art or actions may be performed inparallel or dynamically, without departing from the scope of the presentapplication.

As illustrated in FIG. 2, the training of title generation computermodel involves using two training data sets. In some exampleimplementations first training data set 205 is unlabeled data from afirst (target) domain and second training data set 210 is pre-labeleddata from a second (source) domain. For example, training data set 205could be unlabeled posts to an internal company chat or messagingplatform with a bias toward business related domains and training dataset 210 may be labeled articles or stores posted to a news platformproviding general interest stories (general interest domain).

At 215, vocabularies extracted from the first training data set 205 andfrom the second training data set 210 may be combined to produce asingle vocabulary. In other words, to handle differences in vocabulary,the vocabulary of the labeled data (source) 210 and unlabeled data(target) domains are combined. For example, the union of the 50 k mostfrequent terms from the training data of each domain (e.g., the domainof the first training data set 205 and the domain of the second trainingdata set 210)) may produce a vocabulary of about 85 k terms due torepetition of common terms between the two data sets.

Further, the grammatical structure of the unlabeled (target) data may bedifferent from the labeled (source) data. For example, the grammar ofthe unlabeled posts to an internal company chat may be more casual thannews articles. To capture the grammar of the target data, titles aresynthesized. For example, to capture the grammatical structure of theunlabeled data set (target data set) 205, “synthetic” or preliminarytitles may be generated by selecting the first sentence of the post witha sentence length of between a minimum and maximum number of words at220. For example, a minimum of 4 words and a maximum of 12 words may beused. Other minimums and maximums may be used in other exampleimplementations. In this way, both the encoder and decoder of a neuralnetwork may be trained on text from the target domain, although thetitles will generally be incorrect. In some example implementations, theselected “titles” from the first sentence were replaced with a later“title” (e.g., occurring later in the document) 10% of the time to makethe task more difficult for the decoder. In some exampleimplementations, synthetic data is used to train a decoder (on grammar)rather than an encoder for a classifier.

At 225, the set of “synthetic” or preliminary titles for the unlabeledtarget domain is first used to train a neural network to develop a modelusing the combined expanded vocabulary from 215. In some exampleimplementations, a sequence-to-sequence encoder-decoder model may beused to generate a title. In some example implementations, a coveragepart of the model may not be included to help to avoid repetition ofwords. The embedded representation generated by the encoder may bedifferent for each domain.

Thus, at 230 an embedding space of the trained model may then adapted tothe source domain using adversarial domain adaptation (ADA) to align theembedded representation for different domains. For example, a classifiermay be employed to forces the embedded feature representations to alignby feeding the negative of the gradient back to the feature extractor.In other words, the embeddings may be treated as “features” and thegradient from the classifier may be altered during back-propagation sothat the negative value is fed back to the encoder, encouraging theembedded representations to align across different domains. FIG. 5discussed below shows an encoder-decoder model with domain adaptation inaccordance with example implementations.

With a joint embedding space defined, the model is re-trained at 235 onthe source domain, which has title-text pairs, and the unlabeled targetdomain is used as the auxiliary adaptation data for a secondaryclassification task to keep the model embedding aligned with the targetdata. For example, the labeled data may be fed to the encoder and thedecoder learns to generate titles. At the same time, unlabeled data isalso fed to the encoder and the classifier tries to learn todifferentiate between data from the two domains.

After re-training at 235, the model can then be fine-tuned using alimited amount of labeled target data at 240 if higher accuracy isneeded and the title generation computer model at 245. After the titlegeneration computer model has been generated, the process 200 ends.

FIG. 3 illustrates a user interface (UI) 300 that may be used to displaydocuments 310 a-310 d in accordance with an example implementation ofthe present application. The UI 300 may be displayed on a display deviceincluding, but not limited to, a computer monitor, TV, touchscreendisplay of a mobile device, a laptop display screen, or any otherdisplay device that may be apparent to a person of ordinary skill in theart. In the UI 300, the documents 310 a-310 d is illustrated as chatmessages or instant messages on a messaging platform. However, othertypes of documents may be used as part of the UI 300.

As illustrated, the UI 300 includes a plurality of user icons 305 a-305f associated with individual users of the chat platform. The UI 300 alsoincludes a search bar or other control interface 315. After an end-userinitiates a search, for example, “web programming”, in the search bar, alist of results (documents 310 a-310 d) are displayed with relevant usericons 305 a-305 f on the left and documents 310 a-310 d on the right(FIG. 3). The users are shown as user icons 305 a-305 f, and thedocuments 310 a-310 d are shown as text snippets with the generatedtitles summarizing the corresponding contents. Some meta-datainformation such as channel names and timespans may also be indicated oneach document documents 310 a-310 d. Relationships between the users andthe conversations (e.g., who is involved in which conversations) arerepresented as links (highlighted by broken line box 330) in the middlesection.

In addition, UI 300 also includes control links 320 and 325 that can beused to can reorder the user icons 305 a-305 f or the conversations 310a-310 d by a variety of criteria (e.g., relevancy, time, andalphabetically). Further, an end-user can expand certain conversationsby clicking one of the “ . . . ” buttons 335 a-335 d, which graduallyreveals individual messages within those conversations (illustrated inFIG. 4 discussed below).

FIG. 4 illustrates another user interface (UI) 400 that may be used todisplay documents 310 a-310 d in accordance with an exampleimplementation of the present application. The UI 400 may have featuresimilar to those discussed above with respect to FIG. 3 and similarreference numerals may be used for similar features. Again, the UI 400may be displayed on a display device including, but not limited to, acomputer monitor, TV, touchscreen display of a mobile device, a laptopdisplay screen, or any other display device that may be apparent to aperson of ordinary skill in the art. In the UI 400, the documents 310a-310 d is illustrated as chat messages or instant messages on amessaging platform. However, other types of documents may be used aspart of the UI 400.

Again, the UI 400 includes a plurality of user icons 305 a-305 fassociated with individual users of the chat platform. The UI 400 alsoincludes a search bar or other control interface 315. After an end-userinitiates a search, for example, “web programming”, in the search bar, alist of results (documents 310 a-310 d) are displayed with relevant usericons 305 a-305 f on the left and documents 310 a-310 d on the right.The users are shown as user icons 305 a-305 f, and the documents 310a-310 d are shown as text snippets with the generated titles summarizingthe corresponding contents. Some meta-data information such as channelnames and timespans may also be indicated on each document documents 310a-310 d. Relationships between the users and the conversations (e.g.,who is involved in which conversations) are represented as links(highlighted by broken line box 330) in the middle section.

In addition, UI 400 also includes control links 320 and 325 that can beused to can reorder the user icons 305 a-305 f or the conversations 310a-310 d by a variety of criteria (e.g., relevancy, time, andalphabetically). Further, an end-user can expand certain conversationsby clicking one of the “ . . . ” buttons 335 a-335 d, which graduallyreveals individual messages 410 a-410 g within those conversations asillustrated in FIG. 4. Additionally, a user may select one or morespecific users (e.g., 305 a), and related conversations 310 a, 310 d,and 310c may be highlighted (in yellow) and brought to the top of thelist.

By first displaying the search results based on generated titles, a usermay be allowed to browse a large amount of information more effectively.The user can then choose the most interesting results to explore furtherby expanding the conversations. As the generated titles summarize largechunks of text, it may the user significant time to read and go throughthe results. Unlike traditional ways of showing search results just in aranked list, the UIs 300 and 400 may enable a richer exploration, suchas investigating relationships between users and conversations,reordering results, and expanding items for details, which may beimportant for browsing complicated enterprising messaging data.

FIG. 5 illustrates a schematic representation of neural network model500 in accordance with an example implementation of the presentapplication.

As illustrated, the neural network model 500 is an encoder-decoder RNNmodel with domain adaptation. Labeled source data (articles 515) is fedto the encoder 505 and the decoder 510 learns to generate summary titles(summary 520). At the same time, the source data and unlabeled targetdomain data are encoded and from their concept representations 525, thedomain classifier 530 tries to learn to differentiate between the twodomains 535.

In some example implementations, the domain classifier 530 may have twodense, 100-unit hidden layers followed by a softmax. The conceptrepresentation 525 vector is computed as the bidirectional LSTMencoder's final forward and backward hidden states concatenated into asingle state. Further, the gradient 54 from the classifier 530 duringback propagation may be “reversed” to be negative before beingpropagated back to through the encoder 505, encouraging the embeddedrepresentations to align by adjusting the feature distributions tomaximize the loss of the domain classifier 530.

Further, the generated sequence loss together with the adversarialdomain classifier loss may be defined by equation 1 below:

$\begin{matrix}{{loss} = {{\frac{1}{T}{\sum\limits_{t = 0}^{T}{L_{g}(t)}}} - {\lambda \; L_{d}}}} & \left( {{Equation}\mspace{14mu} 1} \right)\end{matrix}$

where, the decoder loss L_(y)(t)=−log P(ω_(t)*) is the negative loglikelihood of the target word ω_(t)* at position t. The domainclassifier loss, L_(d), is the cross-entropy loss between the predictedand true domain label probabilities.

Evaluation Results

Inventors have conducted multiple experiments to investigate how wellthe different methods perform when no labeled data is available.

FIG. 6 provides a graph of results of one experiment involving exampleimplementations of the present application. As illustrated, performanceof various models for generating titles for unlabeled messaging data ina chat platform. The models compared from left to right are:

(1) a baseline model using a news vocabulary trained on news articlesand titles;

(2) a model with an expanded, combined vocabulary of the most frequentterms from both the training news data and the unlabeled messaging data(stEx data);

(3) model 2 trained on real unlabeled messaging data with syntheticStack Exchange titles, then trained on news data;

(4) model 2, except rather than training directly on news, first domainadaptation is used to adapt the synthetic Stack Exchange data and newsdata. Then domain adaptation is embedded representations aligned for thetwo domains.

TABLE 1 First Experimental results illustrated in FIG. 6 ROUGE-1 ROUGE-1ROUGE-1 Vocabulary Training Data F-score F-score F-score vocab: News0.1365 0.0402 0.1227 vocab: News + News 0.1678 0.0513 0.15 stEx vocab:News + sStEx + news 0.1699 0.0534 0.1538 stEx Vocab: News + sStEx +sStExDA + 0.1778 0.0622 0.1615 stEx news25kDA

From FIG. 6 and Table 1 above, it can be observed that adding each ofthe methods improves the performance in varying amounts. The overallimprovement over using a model trained with the news vocabulary on newsdata to generate titles when using a combination of the methods is 30%.

FIG. 7 provides a graph of results of a second experiment involvingexample implementations of the present application. As illustrated, thissecond experimental data set compares the performance when no labeleddata is available. Again, titles are generated for unlabeled messagingdata in a chat platform. The models compared from left to right are:

(1) the baseline performance model (model 1) described with respect toFIG. 6 above;

(2) a model with an expanded, combined vocabulary of the most frequentterms from both the training news data and the unlabeled messaging dataexcept rather than training directly on news, first domain adaptation isused to adapt the synthetic Stack Exchange data and news data (model 4from FIG. 6);

(3) the model (2) of FIG. 7 fine-tuned with 10% of a labeled messagedata set (140 k post and title pairs);

(4) the baseline mode (model 1 of FIG. 6) using 10% of the labeledmessage data set (140 k post and title pairs);

(5) the baseline mode (model 1 of FIG. 6) using 100% of the labeledmessage data set (140 k post and title pairs).

As illustrated in FIG. 7 and Table 2 below, (1) the performance usinglabeled training data (models 4 and 5) is much better than when nolabeled message data is available and (2) the performance when only 10%of the labeled training data (model 4) is used is quite a bit lower thanwhen all of the labeled training data (model 5 is used.

Model 3 is the best combined model which is then fine-tuned with 10% ofthe labeled Stack Exchange training data. Note that this modelnoticeably improves the performance over using 10% of the labeledtraining message data (4) alone.

TABLE 2 First Experimental results illustrated in FIG. 6 ROUGE-1 ROUGE-1ROUGE-1 Vocabulary Training Data F-score F-score F-score vocab: NewsNews 0.1365 0.0402 0.1227 vocab: News + sStEx + DA 0.1778 0.0622 0.1615stEx vocab: News + sStEx + DA + 10% 0.3022 0.134 0.2846 stEx stExStackEx (10%) 0.2542 0.0901 0.2373 StackEx (100%) 0.3149 0.137 0.2922

Example Computing Environment

FIG. 8 illustrates an example computing environment 800 with an examplecomputer device 805 suitable for use in some example implementations.Computing device 805 in computing environment 800 can include one ormore processing units, cores, or processors 810, memory 815 (e.g., RAM,ROM, and/or the like), internal storage 820 (e.g., magnetic, optical,solid state storage, and/or organic), and/or I/O interface 825, any ofwhich can be coupled on a communication mechanism or bus 830 forcommunicating information or embedded in the computing device 805.

Computing device 805 can be communicatively coupled to input/interface835 and output device/interface 840. Either one or both ofinput/interface 835 and output device/interface 840 can be a wired orwireless interface and can be detachable. Input/interface 835 mayinclude any device, component, sensor, or interface, physical orvirtual, which can be used to provide input (e.g., buttons, touch-screeninterface, keyboard, a pointing/cursor control, microphone, camera,braille, motion sensor, optical reader, and/or the like).

Output device/interface 840 may include a display, television, monitor,printer, speaker, braille, or the like. In some example implementations,input/interface 835 (e.g., user interface) and output device/interface840 can be embedded with, or physically coupled to, the computing device805. In other example implementations, other computing devices mayfunction as, or provide the functions of, an input/interface 835 andoutput device/interface 840 for a computing device 805. These elementsmay include, but are not limited to, well-known AR hardware inputs so asto permit a user to interact with an AR environment.

Examples of computing device 805 may include, but are not limited to,highly mobile devices (e.g., smartphones, devices in vehicles and othermachines, devices carried by humans and animals, and the like), mobiledevices (e.g., tablets, notebooks, laptops, personal computers, portabletelevisions, radios, and the like), and devices not designed formobility (e.g., desktop computers, server devices, other computers,information kiosks, televisions with one or more processors embeddedtherein and/or coupled thereto, radios, and the like).

Computing device 805 can be communicatively coupled (e.g., via I/Ointerface 825) to external storage 845 and network 850 for communicatingwith any number of networked components, devices, and systems, includingone or more computing devices of the same or different configuration.Computing device 805 or any connected computing device can befunctioning as, providing services of, or referred to as a server,client, thin server, general machine, special-purpose machine, oranother label.

I/O interface 825 can include, but is not limited to, wired and/orwireless interfaces using any communication or I/O protocols orstandards (e.g., Ethernet, 802.11xs, Universal System Bus, WiMAX, modem,a cellular network protocol, and the like) for communicating informationto and/or from at least all the connected components, devices, andnetwork in computing environment 800. Network 850 can be any network orcombination of networks (e.g., the Internet, local area network, widearea network, a telephonic network, a cellular network, satellitenetwork, and the like).

Computing device 805 can use and/or communicate using computer-usable orcomputer-readable media, including transitory media and non-transitorymedia. Transitory media includes transmission media (e.g., metal cables,fiber optics), signals, carrier waves, and the like. Non-transitorymedia includes magnetic media (e.g., disks and tapes), optical media(e.g., CD ROM, digital video disks, Blu-ray disks), solid state media(e.g., RAM, ROM, flash memory, solid-state storage), and othernon-volatile storage or memory.

Computing device 805 can be used to implement techniques, methods,applications, processes, or computer-executable instructions in someexample computing environments. Computer-executable instructions can beretrieved from transitory media, and stored on and retrieved fromnon-transitory media. The executable instructions can originate from oneor more of any programming, scripting, and machine languages (e.g., C,C++, C#, Java, Visual Basic, Python, Perl, JavaScript, and others).

Processor(s) 810 can execute under any operating system (OS) (notshown), in a native or virtual environment. One or more applications canbe deployed that include logic unit 855, application programminginterface (API) unit 860, input unit 865, output unit 870, modeltraining unit 875, titled generation unit 880 and domain adaption unit885, and inter-unit communication mechanism 895 for the different unitsto communicate with each other, with the OS, and with other applications(not shown).

For example, the model training unit 875, titled generation unit 880 anddomain adaption unit 885 may implement one or more processes shown inFIGS. 1 James and 2. The described units and elements can be varied indesign, function, configuration, or implementation and are not limitedto the descriptions provided.

In some example implementations, when information or an executioninstruction is received by API unit 860, it may be communicated to oneor more other units (e.g., model training unit 875, titled generationunit 880 and domain adaption unit 885). For example, the model trainingunit 875 may generates a title generation computer model based onreceived training data and/or extracted domain vocabularies and providethe generated title generation computer to the domain adaption unit 885.Further, the domain adaption unit 885 may adapt the provided titlegeneration computer model to new domains and provide the titlegeneration computer model to the title generation unit 880. Further, thetitle generation units 880 may apply the generated and adapted titlegeneration computer model to one or more documents received by the inputunit 865 and generate a UI with the one or more documents via the outputunit 870.

In some instances, the logic unit 855 may be configured to control theinformation flow among the units and direct the services provided by APIunit 860, input unit 865, model training unit 875, titled generationunit 880 and domain adaption unit 885 in some example implementationsdescribed above. For example, the flow of one or more processes orimplementations may be controlled by logic unit 855 alone or inconjunction with API unit 860.

Although a few example implementations have been shown and described,these example implementations are provided to convey the subject matterdescribed herein to people who are familiar with this field. It shouldbe understood that the subject matter described herein may beimplemented in various forms without being limited to the describedexample implementations. The subject matter described herein can bepracticed without those specifically defined or described matters orwith other or different elements or matters not described. It will beappreciated by those familiar with this field that changes may be madein these example implementations without departing from the subjectmatter described herein as defined in the appended claims and theirequivalents.

What is claimed is:
 1. A method of generating titles for documents in astorage platform, the method comprising: receiving a plurality ofdocuments, each document having associated content features; applying atitle generation computer model to each of the plurality of documents togenerate a title based on the associated content features; appending thegenerated title to each of the plurality of documents, wherein the titlegeneration computer model is created by training a neural network usinga combination of: a first set of unlabeled data from a first domainrelated to content features of the plurality of documents; and a secondset of pre-labeled data from a second domain different from the firstdomain.
 2. The method of claim 1, wherein the neural network is trainedby combining a vocabulary extracted from the first set of data with avocabulary extracted from the second set of data.
 3. The method of claim1, the training of the neural network further comprising: extractingcontent features from the first set of data; generating a first set ofpreliminary titles based on the extracted content features from thefirst set of data; and training the neural network on the first domainusing the generated preliminary titles and the first set of data.
 4. Themethod of claim 3, wherein the generating a first set of preliminarytitles comprises extracting a portion of content features from the textfrom each of the plurality of documents in the first set of unlabeleddata.
 5. The method of claim 3, the training of the neural networkfurther comprising adapting the trained neural network to the seconddomain based on the pre-labeled data of the second set and combinedvocabularies extracted from the first set of data and the second set ofdata.
 6. The method of claim 5, wherein adapting the trained neuralnetwork to the second domain based on the pre-labeled data of the secondset and the combined vocabularies extracted from the first set of dataand the second set of data comprises performing a secondaryclassification task to keep the trained neural network aligned with thepre-labeled data of the second set.
 7. The method of claim 5, thetraining of the neural network further comprising further re-trainingthe neural network on the second domain using the generated preliminarytitles and the second set of data; and adapting the re-trained neuralnetwork to the first domain based on the first set of data and thecombined vocabularies extracted from the first set of data and thesecond set of data.
 8. The method of claim 7, further comprisinggenerating a user interface (UI) providing a search function based onthe generated titles; and displaying at least one document in responseto search request received through the UI based on the generated titles.9. The method of claim 8, further comprising receiving a selectionrequest through the UI; updating the title generation computer modelbased on the received selection request.
 10. A non-transitory computerreadable medium having stored therein a program for making a computerexecute a method of generating titles for documents in a storageplatform, the method comprising: receiving a plurality of documents,each document having associated content features; applying a titlegeneration computer model to each of the plurality of documents togenerate a title based on the associated content features; appending thegenerated title to each of the plurality of documents, wherein the titlegeneration computer model is created by training a neural network usinga combination of: a first set of unlabeled data from a first domainrelated to content features of the plurality of documents; and a secondset of pre-labeled data from a second domain different from the firstdomain.
 11. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 10,wherein the neural network is trained by combining a vocabularyextracted from the first set of data with a vocabulary extracted fromthe second set of data.
 12. The non-transitory computer readable mediumof claim 10, the training of the neural network further comprising:extracting content features from the first set of data; generating afirst set of preliminary titles based on the extracted content featuresfrom the first set of data; and training the neural network on the firstdomain using the generated preliminary titles and the first set of data.13. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 12, thetraining of the neural network further comprising adapting the trainedneural network to the second domain based on the pre-labeled data of thesecond set and combined vocabularies extracted from the first set ofdata and the second set of data
 14. The non-transitory computer readablemedium of claim 13, wherein adapting the trained neural network to thesecond domain based on the pre-labeled data of the second set and thecombined vocabularies extracted from the first set of data and thesecond set of data comprises performing a secondary classification taskto keep the trained neural network aligned with the pre-labeled data ofthe second set.
 15. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim13, the training of the neural network further comprising furtherre-training the neural network on the second domain using the generatedpreliminary titles and the second set of data; and adapting there-trained neural network to the first domain based on the first set ofdata and the combined vocabularies extracted from the first set of dataand the second set of data.
 16. The non-transitory computer readablemedium of claim 15, further comprising generating a user interface (UI)providing a search function based on the generated titles; anddisplaying at least one document in response to search request receivedthrough the UI based on the generated titles.
 17. A computing devicecomprising: a memory storing a plurality of documents; and a processorconfigured to perform a method of generating titles for the plurality ofdocuments, the method comprising: receiving a plurality of documents,each document having associated content features; applying a titlegeneration computer model to each of the plurality of documents togenerate a title based on the associated content features; appending thegenerated title to each of the plurality of documents, wherein the titlegeneration computer model is created by training a neural network usinga combination of: a first set of unlabeled data from a first domainrelated to content features of the plurality of documents; and a secondset of pre-labeled data from a second domain different from the firstdomain.
 18. The computing device of claim 17, wherein the training ofthe neural network further comprises: extracting content features fromthe first set of data; generating a first set of preliminary titlesbased on the extracted content features from the first set of data; andtraining the neural network on the first domain using the generatedpreliminary titles and the first set of data.
 19. The computing deviceof claim 18, the training of the neural network further comprisesadapting the trained neural network to the second domain based on thepre-labeled data of the second set and combined vocabularies extractedfrom the first set of data and the second set of data.
 20. The computingdevice of claim 19, the training of the neural network further comprisesre-training the neural network on the second domain using the generatedpreliminary titles and the second set of data; and adapting there-trained neural network to the first domain based on the first set ofdata and the combined vocabularies extracted from the first set of dataand the second set of data.